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From Emperor Tongue to Emperor Wu Ding.

Last time, we went over the more meta story of how we came to know what we know about the shang, its society and customs.

So with that in mind, today we pick up the main storyline where it left off at the end of

episode 5, the defeat and exile of Jia of Shah and the beginning of the Shang Dynasty

with the ascension of Lord Tongg to King Tong.

Before launching into that though, I'd like to make a quick aside that though we know factually that most of these kings existed, and more on that in a minute, it doesn't guarantee that we know much beyond that.

The oracle bones act as confirmation of their reins and lines of succession,

but are hardly an exhaustive body of knowledge.

The other sources we use to chronicle the

shong were operating from a similarly limited knowledge set. And so we have

several kings who are very very interesting and quite a few who will be mentioned really only in passing.

This is not because I don't think that they are all worthy of examination, but simply because there's precious little to examine at all.

This leads me to my other caveat before continuing, the discrepancy between our sources. The annals of the grandi... the is where many of the more detailed descriptions come from.

However, there are two kings mentioned in the Sheji

that are notably absent from the Oracle bones records.

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